Somehow this, which popped up on Hyperorg.com, seems incredibly unlikely to us:
A friend in Belmont (MA) was among a group of neighbors whose laptops were stolen from their homes. It seems the thieves used RF detection equipment to scan the neighborhood, finding homes with wireless hubs. They targeted those homes & stole the laptops.
How did they know that the thief or thieves actually used WiFi detectors? It doesn’t say whether only homes with wireless access points got hit. But it seems far more plausible that whoever stole these laptops decided to strike in Belmont (which happens to be an affluent suburb of Boston) because the odds were pretty good that homes there would have expensive computer equipment within, doesn’t it?
PS – Even if they did end up using WiFi detectors to pull off these heists, the odds seem pretty good that they didn’t use Kensington’s WiFi Finder, which has been almost universally reviled as useless.
Read [Via WiFi Networking News]
